• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.145-151
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• 2003

A global ultrasonic sensor system for self-localization of a mobile robot is proposed in this paper. The global ultrasonic sensor system consists of three or more ultrasonic transmitters fixed at some positions in the world coordinate and receivers in the moving coordinate of a mobile robot. In this global sensor system it is easy to get state vector of the mobile robot in the world coordinate from the distance information between each ultrasonic transmitter and receiver. An extended kalman filter algorithm is used to process the noisy ultrasonic signal and to estimate the state vector. In case of using several independent ultrasonic transmitters, it is necessary to avoid the cross talk among the ultrasonic waves and to synchronize between each ultrasonic transmitter and receiver. The small sized radio frequency modules are adopted to solve the cross talk and the synchronization problem Computer simulation and experiments are carried out to verify the effectiveness of the proposed ultrasonic sensor system.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.27-32
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• 2002

본 논문은 MR(magneto-resistive)센서를 이용한 실외형 자율 이동 로봇의 퍼지 조향 제어기에 대한 연구이다. 2개의 MR 센서를 이용한 지구자기장의 제거방법을 제안하고, 각각의 센서에서 측정된 자기장 차이값(dBy, dBz)을 입력변수로 사용한 퍼지 조향 제어기를 설계하였다. 자율 이동 로봇 시뮬레이션 프로그램을 개발하기 위해 MR센서의 모델링, 이동로봇의 동적모델링, 좌표변환 등을 하였다. 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션은 퍼지 로직을 이용한 이동로봇 제어기의 주행성능을 검증하기 위해 사용되었고 그 시뮬레이션을 통하여 제안한 퍼지 조향제어기의 강인성을 검증하였다.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제7권3호
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• pp.198-204
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• 2007

In mobile robotics, ultrasonic sensors became standard devices for collision avoiding. Moreover, their applicability for map building and navigation has exploited in recent years. In this paper, as the preliminary step for developing a multi-purpose autonomous carrier mobile robot to transport trolleys or heavy goods and serve as robotic nursing assistant in hospital wards. The aim of this paper is to present the use of multi-sensor data fusion such as ultrasonic sensor, IR sensor for mobile robot to navigate, and presents an experimental mobile robot designed to operate autonomously within both indoor and outdoor environments. The global map building based on multi-sensor data fusion is applied for recognition an obstacle free path from a starting position to a known goal region, and simultaneously build a map of straight line segment geometric primitives based on the application of the Hough transform from the actual and noisy sonar data. We will give an explanation for the robot system architecture designed and implemented in this study and a short review of existing techniques, Hough transform, since there exist several recent thorough books and review paper on this paper. Experimental results with a real Pioneer DX2 mobile robot will demonstrate the effectiveness of the discussed methods.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.488-494
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• 2013

센서네트워크의 능동성과 자율성을 위한 이동에이전트의 효율적 이주 방법과 일관된 네이밍 서비스는 센서네트워크 미들웨어의 주요 요소이다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 센서네트워크 구성 성분들에 대한 다양한 정보를 새로운 메타테이블에 저장하여 RMI 기반의 네이밍 기법을 통하여 능동규칙 이동에이전트의 역 방향 이주와 탑재한 능동규칙 실행을 실험한다. 본 연구는 기존 정 방향 이주[12]의 확장을 기반으로 이루어지며, 실험 결과는 센서네트워크 환경에서의 이동에이전트 미들웨어의 유효성과 효율적인 센서네트워크 응용환경 구축 가능성을 제시하며, 이는 센서네트워크 응용 개발에 있어서 동적인 환경 변화에 대한 적응성을 향상시킬 수 있다.

• 정보처리학회논문지:컴퓨터 및 통신 시스템
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.11-14
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• 2015

저전력 기술에 기반한 무선 센서 네트워크 (Wireless Sensor Networks, WSN) 기술은 유비쿼터스 사회에서 핵심 기술 중 하나이다. 본 논문에서는 WSN환경에서의 국경 감시 및 제어 시스템을 제안한다. 시스템은 고정 센서노드, 모바일 센서노드, 고정 게이트웨이, 모바일 게이트웨이, 서버, 모바일 애플리케이션으로 구성된다. 이 시스템의 유용성은 모바일 애플리케이션은 사용자모드와 관리자모드로 나뉘어, 일반 사람들도 시간과 공간의 제약 없이 스마트폰을 통해 국경 침범을 감시하고 국경 망 환경에 대한 데이터를 얻을 수 있다. 관리자모드에서는 노드들의 유동적 작동을 위해 관리자가 원격으로 소프트웨어 업데이트를 할 수 있고, 모바일 노드의 위치를 조정할 수 있다. 또한 저전력 센서노드의 확장성을 위해 시스템에 적합한 멀티 홉 라우팅 프로토콜을 적용하여 구현하였으며 제안한 시스템이 한정된 자원과 저사양의 하드웨어로 동작하는 WSN환경에서도 신속하고 정확하게 동작함을 확인하였다.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.35-43
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose a grid-based efficient routing protocol for a mobile sink in wireless sensor networks. In the proposed protocol, the network is partitioned into grids and each grid has a grid head. For the efficient routing to a mobile sink, the proposed protocol uses a mobile sink representative node to send the data to a mobile sink and grid heads are used as a mobile sink representative node. Furthermore, the proposed protocol uses nodes in the boundary of the center grid as position storage nodes. The position storage nodes store the position of a mobile sink representative node and provide source nodes with it for data delivery. With these features, the proposed protocol can reduce a lot of overhead to update the position information and improve the delay of data delivery to a mobile sink. The proposed protocol performs better than other protocols in terms of the delay and the energy consumption per node in the performance evaluation.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제10권9호
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• pp.4044-4062
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• 2016

We investigate the optimization of energy consumption in Mobile Cloud environment in this paper. In order to optimize the energy consumed by the CPUs in mobile devices, we put forward using the asymptotic time complexity (ATC) method to distinguish the computational complexities of the applications when they are executed in mobile devices. We propose a multi-scale scheme to quantize the channel gain and provide an improved dynamic transmission scheduling algorithm when offloading the applications to the cloud center, which has been proved to be helpful for reducing the mobile devices energy consumption. We give the energy estimation methods in both mobile execution model and cloud execution model. The numerical results suggest that energy consumed by the mobile devices can be remarkably saved with our proposed multi-scale scheme. Moreover, the results can be used as a guideline for the mobile devices to choose whether executing the application locally or offloading it to the cloud center.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.743-749
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• 2020

Internet of Things (IoT) is a growing technology along with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Recently, increasing cases of developing knowledge services using information collected from sensor data have been reported. Communication is required to connect the IoT and AI, and 5G mobile networks have been widely spread recently. IoT, AI services, and 5G mobile networks can be configured and used as sensor-mobile edge-server. The sensor does not send data directly to the server. Instead, the sensor sends data to the mobile edge for quick processing. Subsequently, mobile edge enables the immediate processing of data based on AI technology or by sending data to the server for processing. 5G mobile network technology is used for this data transmission. Therefore, this study examines the challenges, opportunities, and solutions used in each type of technology. To this end, this study addresses clustering, Hyperledger Fabric, data, security, machine vision, convolutional neural network, IoT technology, and resource management of 5G mobile networks.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 1997년도 한국자동제어학술회의논문집; 한국전력공사 서울연수원; 17-18 Oct. 1997
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• pp.1597-1600
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• 1997

Most autonomous mobile robots view things only in front of them. As a result they may collide against objects moving from the side or behind. To overcome the problem we have built an Active Omni-directional Range Sensor that can obtain omni-directional depth data by a laser conic plane and a conic mirror. Also we proposed a self-localization algorithm of mobile robot in unknown environment by fusion of Odometer and Active Omn-directional Range Sensor.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.275-294
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• 2016

A primary task in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is data collection. The main objective of this task is to collect sensor readings from sensor fields at predetermined sinks using routing protocols without conducting network processing at intermediate nodes, which have been proved as being inefficient in many research studies using a static sink. The major drawback is that sensor nodes near a data sink are prone to dissipate more energy power than those far away due to their role as relay nodes. Recently, novel WSN architectures based on mobile sinks and mobile relay nodes, which are able to move inside the region of a deployed WSN, which has been developed in most research works related to mobile WSN mainly exploit mobility to reduce and balance energy consumption to enhance communication reliability among sensor nodes. Our main purpose in this paper is to propose a solution to the problem of deploying mobile data collectors for alleviating the high traffic load and resulting bottleneck in a sink's vicinity, which are caused by static approaches. For this reason, several WSNs based on mobile elements have been proposed. We studied two key issues in WSN mobility: the impact of the mobile element (sink or relay nodes) and the impact of the mobility model on WSN based on its performance expressed in terms of energy efficiency and reliability. We conducted an extensive set of simulation experiments. The results obtained reveal that the collection approach based on relay nodes and the mobility model based on stochastic perform better.